Nanyang 1931: From piglets to giants

Chapter 43 I am Zheng Yi, and I am honored to meet you seniors.

With the connections of Li Jiqian and Li Xiaoshi, as they were celebrating a big birthday, the best they could do was to ensure that all the celebrities in Kuala Lumpur would come.

It is a great honor for celebrities from Singapore, Penang and Malacca to be able to come.

Not to mention the overseas Chinese leaders like Mr. Yi from Siam, Mr. Hu from Myanmar, and Mr. Li from the Philippines who came from such far away places and flew here specially.

In fact, they didn't know each other at all and just got to know each other through Li Huaishuang's introduction.

Celebrating the birthday was just an excuse, but in fact, it was all for Zheng Yi and Taiyou Machinery Factory.

However, everyone is still a little unsure about the strength and potential of Taiyou Machinery, as well as the true strength of Zheng Yi, the so-called scientist.

After all, no one understands technology, and they can't even find many people around them who understand technology. The engineers around them are all Europeans and Americans.

The rubber equipment and almost fully automatic production line are indeed amazing. However, no one knows whether this is the beginning or the peak of China's and Southeast Asia's industrialization, and whether Mr. Zheng is just trying out his skills or just got lucky and used all his skills.

To put it bluntly, the rubber production line is certainly a very good thing, but if it were just this thing, it would not be worth so many overseas Chinese leaders making a special trip.

But it’s a different story for someone who can design his own rubber production line.

In fact, after looking at the products, their European and American technical consultants all agreed that the technical difficulty of the machines, production lines, and production itself was just that.
The same thing can probably be made by any machinery factory in Europe or the United States, but it is rare in Southeast Asia.

However, the design concept of the entire production line can be described as ingenious, with extremely high mechanical intelligence.

Since he can make a rubber production line today, he can make other production lines tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow, maybe he won’t make a production line anymore, but can make something else instead.

Zheng Yi was also very clear that this group of people came to see him.

They are all interested in investing in Taiyou Machinery. However, the truly valuable thing about Taiyou Machinery, apart from the technical workers who have already achieved some results and are being trained in a fission-like manner, is the general manager himself.

He alone can account for more than half of the value of Tai Machinery.

In other words, the greater the value he demonstrates, the more valuable Taiyou Machinery will be, and the more confident they will be when negotiating with these big guys.

Even if he wants to work alone one day in the future, the stronger the ability he can demonstrate today, the smoother it will be for him to cooperate with these big guys in the future.

It would be difficult for these people to judge his level as an engineer just by words. It would be better to take advantage of this time to make something real that can shock them.

This is the birthday gift for Mr. Li.

Although in Zheng Yi's opinion, the economic value of the powered delta wing is not high, its military value is actually hard to say.

This thing was actually not in his production plan.

It's just a show-off after it was created.

And so far, the effect seems to be quite good.

Originally, he wanted to make only one set as a gift for Li Jiazhi, but because Wang Qiaoyun kept bothering her, and she had indeed helped him a lot during the test flight for more than half a month.

So, I followed her request and made another one, and they both flew away together on the day of the birthday party.

After a while, two powered delta-wing aircraft began to circle over Li Yuan, slowed down, and then slowly landed.

Some people couldn't help but exclaim: "This thing doesn't even need an airport to land!"

"Isn't this just like flying and landing as you please?"

"Is this something Mr. Zheng made again? After building the first production line for Chinese people, Mr. Zheng actually built the first airplane for Chinese people?"

"It's definitely not the first aircraft. I heard that AVIC has already designed several models."

"It's useless. There's no mass production at all. Mr. Wang's ability is not a problem, but even though he has the design, he can't produce it at all. It's a waste of precious resources."

"Then how do you know this can be mass-produced?" "Nonsense! How long has Taiyou Machinery been established? How much capital has it invested in total? With such a short time and such little money, this must be something that can be mass-produced!"

"Ah? Could it be that Mr. Zheng is not only capable of designing production lines, but also aircraft design...he's even better than Mr. Wang Zu? That's impossible! Mr. Wang Zu was once the chief designer of Boeing!"

"It's hard to say. I think Mr. Zheng is quite evil. Maybe he can really be compared with Mr. Wang."

"Good fellow, such a treasure didn't return to China, but instead ran to our Nanyang."

"Hey, you're the one saying this. Will returning to China necessarily be good? Mr. Wang has been back for three or four years. What's the result? What has he accomplished?"

As they were talking, the two powered delta-wing aircraft had already come to a steady stop. One of them even turned on the ground and did a beautiful tailspin.

"Dad~"

Wang Qiaoyun came down excitedly, threw herself into Wang Zhaosong's arms, and gave him a big kiss.

"Dad, am I awesome?"

"Great, great, great, hehe."

Although Wang Zhaosong is the leader of the Qiongzhou overseas Chinese in Kuala Lumpur, there are actually not many Qiongzhou people in Kuala Lumpur, and their business influence in Kuala Lumpur is not that large. Those who came to celebrate his birthday today cannot be considered the first tier, but can only be considered the second.

Now that Wang Qiaoyun did this, his presence among these people seemed to have become much stronger.

People like Hu Wenhu and Tan Kah Kee, whom he usually looked up to, all looked at him with friendly, even envious eyes, which made him feel his chest straightened a lot.

He had nine sons, but at least so far, none of them could shoulder important responsibilities or be considered a successful person. They were far from being comparable to a true young talent like Li Xiaoshi. Now it seems that this daughter is quite talented.

The other powered delta-wing aircraft was much slower to stop, and only after it had completely come to a complete stop did it slowly open the door.

Li Jiqian was quite surprised to see Zheng Yi coming down from the co-pilot seat. It was not until Li Jiazhi came down from the driver's seat and took off her flight helmet that Li Jiqian suddenly woke up.

"Da Ya? You, you...are you flying this plane?"

Li Jiazhi's face flushed red, her heart actually beating fast. She nodded and said to Li Jiqian, "Daddy, happy birthday to you."

"When did you learn to fly a plane?"

"I... I practiced for a whole day yesterday under Qiao Yun's guidance. I just learned it, and since Mr. Zheng was sitting next to me and helping me today, I tried to fly on my own."

"Just...just learned it? Just learned it yesterday?"

Now, the eyes of the big guys looking at Zheng Yi became more and more passionate.

Is the operation so simple?

Can you start driving after only one day of study?

You know, 14,000 British pilots died in World War I. But 8,000 of them died while learning to fly and during flight training.

The mortality rate in pilot training is quite high.

Although the mortality rate during pilot training has decreased, it still takes a lot of time and requires hands-on teaching from experienced pilots.

After just one day of learning, you can actually fly!!!
Still such a little girl.

Although no one understands the technology, they feel that this thing is very powerful just by feeling.

After getting off the plane, Zheng Yi smiled and clasped his fists towards Li Jiqian, saying, "Grandpa, I wish you a happy life every year, as blessed as the East Sea, and as long-lived as the Southern Mountains."

After that, he bowed deeply to the group of people who were looking at him, a big man he didn't know, and said, "I am Zheng Yi, and I am honored to meet you, the seniors."

(End of this chapter)